{"id":67920,"date":"2017-06-21T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=67920"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:06:13","slug":"audio-review-cry-song-michael-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=67920","title":{"rendered":"audio review : Cry ( song ) &#8230; Michael Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning sounds too much like <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=96275\" title=\"audio review : Stranger In Moscow ( song ) ... Michael Jackson\">Stranger In Moscow<\/a>, but the song gets better from there. Cry, which the title suggests is a counterpart to Scream, is actually the new Man In The Mirror; a fact you might not recognize until the end. &#8220;Change the world&#8221;, is the final message. Back then it was, &#8220;Make that change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aesthetically both philanthropy anthems are about the same, but the message sounded more urgent in 1987. The melodies are well composed and the ad-libs during the final minute near classic Michael Jackson, but, despite backup from a full gospel choir, he sounds less energetic, ironically less Invincible, here.<\/p>\n<p>my rating : 4 of 5<\/p>\n<p>2001<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=7904\" title=\"audio review : Invincible ( album ) ... Michael Jackson\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/posts\/7904-1.jpg\" alt=\"audio review : Invincible ( album ) ... Michael Jackson\" title=\"audio review : Invincible ( album ) ... Michael Jackson\" style=\"height:100px;\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beginning sounds too much like Stranger In Moscow, but the song gets better from there. Cry, which the title suggests is a counterpart to Scream, is actually the new Man In The Mirror; a fact you might not recognize until the end. &#8220;Change the world&#8221;, is the final message. Back then it was, &#8220;Make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/?p=67920\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">audio review : Cry ( song ) &#8230; Michael Jackson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9762],"tags":[93,238],"class_list":["post-67920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-reviews-with-a-4-of-5-rating","tag-michael-jackson","tag-r-kelly"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134824,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67920\/revisions\/134824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcellee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}